The latest addition to the college media social networking scene: Global Student Journalists. Billed as “an online meeting place for student journalists from around the world,” the site is aiming to be a universal Facebook for j-students. Creator Anna Rodrigues is a former television news reporter and producer who now teaches journalism at Durham College in Canada. – [...]
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Campus Journalism in Disarray at AUC in Egypt
Posted in College Media, International Student Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged American University in Cairo, Campus Journalism, Egypt Today, International College Media, Journalism Education, Student Newspaper, Student Press, Suleman Din, The Caravan on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In its current issue, Egypt Today describes the campus relocation of American University in Cairo as chaotic: “Classrooms with no air conditioning, computers not installed, women’s bathrooms with no toilets, exposed wires and seemingly as many hard-hatted workmen as professors.” The journalistic infrastructure, alas, has not been spared from the moving pains: Pulitzer [...]
“To Write is Already to Choose”
Posted in College Media, International Student Media, Journalism, tagged International College Media on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Student media in the Philippines currently face a number of challenges, according to a report from a newspaper in the province of Cebu. Chief among them: administrative censorship and a lack of funding. One group working for the betterment of student journalists nationwide: the College Editors Guild of the Philippines. CEGP is an alliance [...]
Sex in Student Press Spotlight Again: This Time in India
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged International College Media on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Kansas to Kerala, India, sex is stirring controversy within the college press. As CMM previously reported, a Daily Kansan ”sex issue” recently earned some naysaying and media rabble-rousing in greater Lawrence. Now, a student magazine at a college in India is in the spotlight for a cover page deemed overly sexual. As displayed above, the [...]
Sex, Dirty Loos, and a Rat in the Canteen
Posted in College Media, International Student Media, Journalism, tagged International College Media, Sex, Student Newspaper on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
August 24- The newspaper is still less than a year old, but it is already making a difference. The DU Beat, an independent student newspaper begun in December 2007 at Delhi University in India, has the school’s students and staffers talking with a range of innovative, in-your-face content. The most popular offering: “Ask Sex Amma,” [...]
